{"id":1601,"date":"2021-09-13T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zimbabweschildren.org\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:25:11","slug":"pioneering-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimbabweschildren.org\/index.php\/pioneering-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/zhc\/detail-events\/en\/c\/238478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)<\/a><strong>Conservation Agriculture<\/strong>\u00a0is key to the future of food security with the world facing climate change and 9 billion mouths to feed by 2050.<br>\u00a0We are proud to have been pioneers of this method of farming in the district we work.\u00a0 In 2010 we started training farmers to use this new method of farming however, even after the success of the first years harvest, they were not convinced! 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